First Night Ride of the Season
The time change occurred last night, so it got dark at 5:30pm tonight.  Given the limited daylight, we chose to start our ride at dusk and ride down to Loveland and back in the dark. We parked at Kingsview Industrial Park and headed down the Lebanon Trail toward the Little Miami Trail.  The temperature was dropping [...]

Cycling Windy Flats, past Marshlands, and Muddy Michigan roads
My original plan for the evening was to just pedal in the hotel room with my bike on the resistance trainer, but the sun came out in the afternoon and it turned into a beautiful day.  There was a light wind from the NNW, so I headed a couple of miles west and then started [...]

Checking out the Colors on the Little Miami Trail
We finally had the time and temperature to get out for a nice Fall ride.    The colors are a bit past peak, and the recent rains have pulled down many of the leaves prematurely, but there was still some enjoyment to be had! We didn’t take time for a long ride, but hit the trail between [...]

Dropped the Jeep off for Service and Cycled Home
Dropped the Jeep off for service at the dealership and rode my Touring bike home (Surly Long Haul Trucker).  I had mapped out some relatively easy routes to keep me off the high traffic roads.  However, there was one spot that was unavoidable, and quite possibly, one of the highest traffic spots in my neck [...]

Google Maps and Little Miami Trail
Google Maps, and MapMyRide, which uses the Google mapping engine, now has incorporated the Little Miami Scenic Trail.  What’s really cool is that on MapMyRide, the auto-route feature can be used to create routes on the trail.  For the past year I’ve had to do this manually. Kudos to Google Maps! Here’s an example of using Google [...]